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Base sherd. Red-brown fabric, with a white slip, light yellow glaze, sgraffiato decoration and green, manganese and yellow-brown splash decoration on the interior; light yellow glaze on the exterior, with splashes of green.


Object details

Object type
Materials and techniques
Splashware sgraffiato, slipped and glazed
Brief description
Sherd, splashware sgraffiato, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 10th or 11th Century
Physical description
Base sherd. Red-brown fabric, with a white slip, light yellow glaze, sgraffiato decoration and green, manganese and yellow-brown splash decoration on the interior; light yellow glaze on the exterior, with splashes of green.
Credit line
Given by Major W. J. Myers
Association
Bibliographic reference
For the life of Myers see R. T. Stearn, “Myers, William Joseph (1858–1899)”, The Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004)
Collection
Accession number
1706-1898

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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